A rare Sunda (Manis Javanica) pangolin, weighing 0.5kg, was handed over to forest rangers in Bu Gia Map district and Phuoc Long township in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on November 5.

A sunda pangolin (Manis Javanica) weighing 9kg, an endangered species, was released into the wild in the southern central province of Binh Phuoc by forest rangers on July 5.

The forest protection department of Bu Dang district in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on August 23 received a 1.15kg Sunda pangolin (Manis Javanica) handed over by a local student.

A pangolin captured by a local in Cai Rang district of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will be handed over to the U Minh Ha National Park in neighbouring Ca Mau province, according to Nguyen Minh Hien, head of the Sub-Department of Rural Development and Forest Protection of Can Tho.

The Cuc Phuong National Park in the northern province of Ninh Binh said on March 15 that it has received and rescued many rare and endangered animals from localities nationwide.

Tam Ky city, the central province of Quang Nam, has initiated a comprehensive effort to eradicate wildlife meat consumption in the region.

The People’s Court of Hanoi on July 12 sentenced three women and one man to a total 18 years in prison for illegally transporting and trading 984kg of pangolin scales, one of the largest cases of wildlife trafficking detected so far in Vietnam.

The Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh on August 11 received an Assam macaque and a pangolin from the local border force.

More than 60 traditional medicine (TM) doctors, practitioners, and students discussed innovative solutions to eradicate treatments using endangered wild animals at a workshop in Hanoi on June 8.

Police in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have caught red-handed a man while he was transporting and trading a large quantity of illegal wildlife animals.

Police in the northwestern border province of Dien Bien have caught red-handed two suspects when they were transporting two wildlife animals.

Choreographer Quang Dang is known for his “Washing hands” dance, which reminded people during the first wave of COVID-19 last year about the health ministry’s hygiene recommendations on washing hands. He has now once again attracted public attention with a dance calling for the protection of the pangolin, an endangered wild animal.

Police in the southern province of Dong Nai on January 13 decided to commence legal proceedings against a man for violating regulations on protection of endangered, precious and rare animals.

Local residents in the south central province of Binh Dinh have voluntarily handed over a pangolin and red-shanked douc langur, the two rare and precious animals, to the provincial forest management department.

Three bears – which were kept illegally in captivity in the central province of Nghe An – have been transferred to the bear protection centre in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

The customs office at Saigon Port under the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, in coordination with relevant forces, discovered and seized nearly 3.8 tonnes of pangolin scales which were hidden in two containers imported to Vietnam from Congo through Cat Lai port.

The police on environment crime prevention and fight under the Ministry of Public Security on October 26 detected an illegal detention of rare animals in Loc Ninh district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

The traditional use of pangolin scales to treat blocked milk ducts is touted by a number of websites online, but doctors of traditional medicine said scientific research proves that it is ineffective.

The largest ever number of rare Java pangolin (Manis javanica), 54 individuals, have been released into the wild recently by the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW).

The Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) group has called on member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to vote against Swaziland.